“Top Tips To Withdrawing From Sugar” to keep you on track today!
1: Don’t add it to foods. This is the easiest and most basic way to immediately reduce the amount of sugar you’re eating. Biggest targets: coffee and tea.
2: Don’t be fooled by “healthy sugar” disguises. Brown sugar, raw sugar, agave
nectar, stevia & sweeteners.... it’s all pretty much the same thing as far as your body is concerned.
3: Reduce or eliminate processed carbohydrates. Most processed carbs — cereals, breads, biscuits, pastas & snacks, are loaded with flour & other ingredients that convert to sugar in the body almost as fast as pure glucose. That sugar gets stored as
triglycerides - or fat.
4: Watch out for “fat-free” "low fat" snacks.
One of the biggest myths is that if a food is fat-free/low-fat it doesn’t make you fat. Fat-free doesn’t mean calorie-free, & all fat-free snacks are loaded with sugar, or chemical sugars - keeping you locked into sugar addiction.
5: Become a food detective.
To reduce sugar you
have to know where it is. Start reading labels or better still cook from scratch.
6: Beware of artificial sweeteners.
They can increase cravings for sugar & also deplete the body’s stores of chromium, a nutrient crucial for blood-sugar metabolism.
7: Do the maths. Look at the label where it says “total sugars” & divide the number
of grams by four. That’s the number of teaspoons of sugar you are ingesting. This exercise alone should scare you to death.
8: Limit fruit. Fruit has sugar, but it also has fibre & good nutrients. Just don’t overdo it. Go for veggies as much as possible and eat local organic fruit that is in season and hasn't been sprayed with
pesticides. For fat-loss purposes have a break from fruit for a few weeks and load up on veggies and see your middle shrink.
9: Eliminate fruit juice. It’s a pure sugar hit.
Hope that helps put it into perspective from a health angle?
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